Scarves



March 22, 1955 s sw -rz 2,704,368

SCRVS Filed June 18. 1952 United States Patent O SCARVES Sophia Swartz, New York, N. Y.

Application June 18, 1952, Serial No. 294,190

2 Claims. (Cl. 2207) This invention relates to scarves and is herein illustrated in some detail as embodied in a textile scarf having warp and woof running parallel to its edges and as adapted to be out from square lengths of cloth without waste of material or without substantial waste.

Attempts have hitherto been made to provide a scarf which would avoid some of the bunching arising when a square or rectangular scarf is passed around the neck, and such scarves have been designed by cutting lengths oi cloth diagonally or on the bias. Such bias-cut scarves have been devised of various forms, one form appearing as a square kerchief cut into diagonally from one corner as far as the center.

Such, and other, bias cut scarves are open to divers objections.

First, the edge of the bias-cut material cannot be readily formed into a fringe.

Second, the bias-cut material, if pulled along one edge, tends to stretch and requires great skill and a great deal of time to produce a hand rolled edge.

Third, sewing any hem on a bias-cut edge, especially W001, involves difficulties in sewing that arise from that tendency to stretch and the threads to pull from the vrying direction of the yarn ends, and makes a clumsy e ge.

Fourth, bias-cut goods when sheer or flimsy in weave, stretch involving many difliculties.

Fifth, L-shaped biascut scarves involve waste in that the eut off parts of a cloth length are triangular in shape and only useful when large.

According to the present invention, the foregoing and other difficulties are avoided, and a scarf is provided of the desirable Lshaped type with both branches of the L identical in length, and the scarf may be 30 out from a length of cloth as to avoid waste.

Moreover, the scarves of the present invention when cut from 60 inch goods, for example, may serve as 120 inch large stoles leaving a large 42 inch square kerchief.

This avoiding of waste may arise from cutting identical scarves from a length of cloth designed in such shape as to leave a useful integral length of cloth, or it may arise from cutting several right-angular shaped scarves according to cutting patterns that fit almost against each other as if nested on a larger length of cloth in various direc tions but always cutting along a warp or woof thread.

The scarves thus ont may be of varied sizes, so that they may almost fit against each other in an order depending on the size and contour of the cloth from which they are out.

The strips of an L-shaped scarf are found to lie fiat on the shoulders of a wearer when the end edges of the Ls lie upon the chest of the wearer and the pointed angle of the scarf lies fiat upon the back of the wearer, thus avoiding anv tendency to bunch at any point. This lying fiat results in a scarf that is free from any tendency to slide off the shoulders in ordinary active exercise.

The edges of the L-shaped scarf cut along the lines of the warp and woof of the fabrc are readily made into fringes that fall naturally, and in the alternative, the

edges are readily hand rolled, hemmed, or seamed in an ordinary manner.

Moreover, since the ends of the scarf may lie fiat on the chest of the wearer, they may lie fiat under a coat, and form a straight lime across the chest, may carry patterns that visibly coordinate the ends, or may be knotted across the throat.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 shows, exploded, a scarf and the kerchief cut from a single length of cloth;

Fig. 2 shows the scarf curved as it lies on the shoulders of a wearer.

The scarf shown, includes two arms 10 and 11 of an L joined at the right angle apex 12, and cut along the warp yarns 13 and woof yarns 14 of the weave of the length of cloth.

The scarf shown in Fig. 1 was out from a 50 inch length of woven woolen cloth 50 inches wide, so that each leg of the scarf is 14 inches wide, leaving a 50 inch final leg length of each scarf and a central square 15 of the cloth thirty-six inches square, and adapted to serve as a head kerchief, of the same pattern as the scarf cut from the same material. Larger cloth lengths may provide larger kerchiefs.

When the pattern printed or woven in the length of cloth was a plaid of repeated squares, for example, the fiat ends 16, 17 of the scarf lying on the chest of the wearer showed matching colors on the straight limes 18, 19 of a properly selected cloth.

Moreover, the scarf shown in Fig. 1 lying With its ends 16, 17 on the chest of the wearer, curved smoothly over the shoulders at 20, and lay fiat on the back of the wearer with its apex 12 pointing downward. The best dimensions seem to be embodied in legs 16, 17 about twice as long as wide and such a scarf usually lies fiat without any need for pins to hold it.

The straight transverse lines of the ends 16, 17, provides an attractive appearance, far superior to the pointed ends of bias-cut scarves.

The edges may be stitched or hand rolled as at 21 and may be fringed as at 22, te suit the purpose in hand.

A collar scarf cut off from standard 44 inch wide goods into 22 inch square, yielded a substantial collar scarf and pocket kerchief with no waste.

The nested scarf mentioned above mav be the L-shaped scarf formed when the central square 15 is cut along the limes 23. 24 to leave a smaller central square 25.

Having thus described in some detail certain embodiments of the invention, What is claimed is:

1. The process of nroducing a series of two flan scarves out of a substantially square piece of fabric which consists in cutting inwardlv and narallel to one edae of the fabric a distance to yeld one side of a smaller square. and thence cutting from the end of the cut narallel to the edge onnosite the end of the cut the same distance t0 vield the adjacent side of the smaller square, on which said cuttng process may be repeated.

2. A process according to claim 1 in which a first square is separated from a length of piece goods and the process is repeated adjacent thereto lengthwise of the piece goods.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,967,054 Grean July 17, 1934 2,112,774 Thorman Mar. 29, 1938 FOREIGN PATENTS 786,993 France June 24, 1935 872,944 France Max. 2, 1942 

